Design Management

This course introduces students to project management by addressing the key challenges related to business performance. Students find themselves in a position to oversee the key phases of the product design process.

This project-based approach allows for a detailed analysis of each phase of the design process through case studies. Students thus learn methods ranging from idea generation (creativity, functional analysis) to the development of the product’s architecture.

• Draft Initial Project Specifications (Innovative Project)

• Draft functional requirements specifications (functional analysis, function characterization)

• Draft a functional product specification (FAST and proposed high-level solutions)

• Conduct a study of the selected conceptual solution

• Write a simple calculation note

• Produce the technical documents needed to manufacture the functional prototype (limited here to 3D printing)

• Validate the functional prototype, produced using 3D printing, by verifying the criteria and levels of functional characterization

• Conduct a project review with the project leader present

• Functional Analysis (Description)

• Technical Communication and CAD

• Strength of Materials

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This course introduces students to project management by addressing the key challenges related to business performance. Students find themselves in a position to oversee the key phases of the product design process.

This project-based approach allows for a detailed analysis of each phase of the design process through case studies. Students thus learn methods ranging from idea generation (creativity, functional analysis) to the development of the product’s architecture.

Students must:

• Draft Initial Project Specifications (Innovative Project)

• Draft functional requirements specifications (functional analysis, function characterization)

• Draft a functional product specification (FAST and proposed high-level solutions)

• Conduct a study of the selected conceptual solution

• Write a simple calculation note

• Produce the technical documents needed to manufacture the functional prototype (limited here to 3D printing)

• Validate the functional prototype, produced using 3D printing, by verifying the criteria and levels of functional characterization

• Conduct a project review with the project leader present